Henry Singer Keating

Sir Henry Singer Keating (13 January 1804 – 1 October 1888)[1] was a British lawyer and politician.

Sir Henry Singer Keating.

The son of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, he attended Trinity College Dublin and became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1832, and a Queen's Counsel in 1849. He was Member of Parliament for Reading from 1852 until 1860[2] and as Solicitor-General for England from 1857 to 1858 and in 1859.[3] He was knighted in 1857.[4]

He sat as a Judge of Common Pleas from 1859[5][6] to 1875. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1875,[7] entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the court of last resort for the Empire.[3]

Arms
Coat of arms of Henry Singer Keating
Crest
On a mural coronet Or a boar statant Gules in the mouth a laurel leaf Vert.[8]
Escutcheon
Arms a saltire Gules between four laurel leaves Vert on a chief embattled Azure two French flags in saltire surmounted by a sword erect all Proper over the sword "Bourbon" in gold letters.

References
  1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 250. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  3.  Foster, Joseph (1885). "Keating, Henry Singer" . Men-at-the-Bar  (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 252.
  4. "No. 22014". The London Gazette. 23 June 1857. p. 2164.
  5. "No. 22337". The London Gazette. 16 December 1859. p. 4739.
  6. "No. 22338". The London Gazette. 20 December 1859. p. 4777.
  7. "No. 24178". The London Gazette. 5 February 1875. p. 452.
  8. Debrett's Judicial Bench. 1869.
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